Cryptocurrency scammers, who search for unsuspecting victims on various social media platforms, are now extending their reach to the Google search engine. Taking advantage of people’s tendency to interact with ads on Google, these scammers are now exploiting the popular search engine to facilitate their own malicious crimes. This week, an individual lost $900,000 through an ad fraud scam,…
YouTube is poised to increase competition from Apple’s Shazam by allowing users to find songs they’ve heard somewhere else, or songs they liked but forgot to add to playlists. . Every music lover’s dream of finding the exact song they were about to forget just by humming it could come true with a new feature YouTube is currently testing….
Windows 11 may soon support artificial intelligence (AI) features, as Microsoft is said to be working on adding automation and AI support to its popular desktop operating system and other products. its related products. The Redmond-based software company’s Windows 11 operating system comes with Photos and Paint apps for image viewing and basic manipulation, respectively. According to a report,…
Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, will remove a protection that allows users to block other accounts, owner Elon Musk said Friday in another controversial move for the company. company he bought last year. The Block on X feature allows users to block specific accounts from contacting them, viewing their messages, or following them. “Blocking will be…
Apple has received a patent that allows the company to provide an alternative form of biometric authentication on its MacBook and Mac computers. The Cupertino company now supports unlocking Mac computers via Touch ID, on certain models. It introduced Face ID on the iPhone X in 2017, which uses a series of sensors to securely authenticate users using facial…
Meta intends to require consent from users in the European Union before allowing companies to target ads based on what they see on their services such as Facebook and Instagram, the media giant. announced Tuesday on social media. Meta said the change was in response to a number of evolving regulatory requirements in the region and stemmed from an…
Elon Musk changed Twitter’s name to X on Monday and unveiled a new logo, which is a stylized black and white version of the letter. Twitter was recently renamed X by owner Elon Musk. On Friday, Musk announced the social networking platform had reached “new heights” with more than 540 million monthly users compared to 229 million users. Monthly…
a lot of people tell me college is the way to go,” says Travis Williams, “but given my learning style, working with technology helps me understand it better. Mr Williams was an apprentice at Virgin O2, one of around 740,400 apprentices across the UK. For recent graduates who don’t want to — or can’t — go to college, apprenticeships…
A hedge fund paid £3.4m to buy a stake in Nuada, a green tech company based in Belfast. Nuada, which started as a subsidiary from Queen’s University Belfast, has developed a carbon capture technique. Carbon capture involves preventing carbon dioxide (CO2) from being released into the atmosphere by industrial processes and power plants. Nuada will use the BGF investment…
Video streaming app TikTok says it will offer text-only posts as competition among the social media giants intensifies. The platform says the new feature gives users “another way to express themselves”. Earlier this month, TikTok launched a new music streaming service on rival platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. And on Monday, Elon Musk’s Twitter dropped its famous blue…
